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Thanks all. My idea is to chop my TD5 110 for a 2007, as my sons refuse to ride in the back of the TD5 and prefer my wife's G.Vitara. However I can't really accept a lower top speed as distances are vast here....... Cheers Charlie

Could any of the lucky new owners confirm; or not; that the top speed is indeed limited to 82mph, and if so how does it affect you going down a steep hill....... Has anybody got any news on how to derestrict the motor..like cutting the "red cable" etc. Cheers Charlie

Adrian: I've got the answer, log onto "you tube', search for the defender 07 and you will see a video on the testing done at about 30 degrees below, and furthermore I think the test was done in volvoland, it appeared in LRO in text, and they posted the video on you tube.....from the video you could just be ok. There are many things you could do to further speed up heating like cover the radiator with a curtain....as you mention a short comute.. cheers Charlie

Yokohama, Geolandar mud terrains, so far so good. Did 250 miles in red jungle mud last week (argie is the size of India)and they were very good, covered for my lack of driving skills. They are also very good in the big city (BA is about the size of London) charlie

It would be interesting for forum members to post their best guesses as to who would/could buy LR , who would be the best fit? I for one haven't got the foggiest idea, although one of the french companies might fit as they have no offroad vehicles worth mentioning. having said that Renault has Nissan doesn't it? Charlie

place the speakers in the corners above the rear door (this was my solution and works fine) and run the cables above the side doors and then down the A pillar, do a search in the site as the subject has been covered a few times. Cheers charlie

TJ, does the speed limiter work? does it limit you going downhill. In a previous post I read that the speed does increase above 82 mph after a while, is this true in your case as well? Anyone know if this will be easy to derestrict??? Cheers Charlie

I use a cork, yes a cork from a wine bottle, if it can keep wine in a bottle for 10 years it should be good enough, just cut to fit Cheers Charlie

These are thoughts well worth to be remembered! >If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famous >erudite scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff >had been stolen... and replaced by exact duplicates." His mind tends to see >things a bit differently than the rest of us mortals. Here are some of his >gems: > 1- I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. > 2- Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it > back. > 3- Half the people you know are below average . > 4- 98% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. > 5- 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. > 6- A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts > feel so good. > 7- A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. > 8- If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the >rain. > > 9- All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. > > 10- The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse > gets the cheese. > > 11- I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me >before we met. > > 12- OK, so what's the speed of dark? > > 13- How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? > > 14- If everything seems to be going well, you have >obviously>overlooked something . > > 15- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. > > 16- When everything is coming your way, you're in the >wrong>lane. > > 17- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense > to>be lazy. > > 18- Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off >now. > > > 19- I intend to live forever; so far, so good. > > 20- If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her >friends? > > 21- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet >engines. > > 22- What happens if you get scared half to death twice? > > 23- My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, > so>I made your horn louder." > > 24- Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? > > 25- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence >that>you tried. > > 26- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of > thinking. > > 27- Experience is something you don't get until just after >you need it. > > 28- The hardness of the butter is proportional to the > softness of the bread. > > 29- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal >from many is research. > > 30- The problem with the gene pool is that there is no > lifeguard. > > 31- The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. > > > 32- The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it. > > 33- Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. > > > 34- If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

As you only have one charging system (your alternator) put "any" batteries in parallel. The point I'm trying to make is that if u have different types of battery u may want to charge them in a different way (deep cycle differently to normal) but as you have no choice of charging system........ don't worry.........EXCEPT don't put a very small battery in vs. existing one or you may charge it too fast and overheat it. In any case test your set up outside the vehicle so u sleep easy Good luck Charlie

I guess we are all safe then.......I´m off to have a beer c.

Your place?

Give a few quid to family and friends. Go and see all the bits of the world I'd never otherwise get to see. Arrange for a nuclear weapon to be delivered to the Casa Rosada. Go on a spaceflight. I'm not sure why you would like to tiddle off the argie bargies, (I work 400 yards from the Casa Rosada)but if you do, joining George Bush and pissing off the whole world would be more time effective.......... you mighy prefer to buy half of patagonia with a few volcanos thrown in, to use as your personal off road track; just remember to invite a few of us over.........I'll take the wine C.

I Saw this a while ago and thought I'd share it. I do wonder how it would affect LR, as they allready share engines etc. charlie The Skeptic Ford Should Sell Jaguar By Howard Wheeldon A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN LONDON -- With little sign of a revival, Ford is showing increasing signs of losing the plot with its ailing U.K. Jaguar subsidiary. Ford should consider putting the for sale sign on the whole Jaguar operation. Having nurtured the brand for so long and poured in vast amounts of investment, it might even get the original GBP1.6 billion back it paid in 1989. Instead, the Dearborn, Michigan-based parent plans to cut production rather than capacity at Jaguar's Halewood and Castle Bromwich plants next year, lowering planned output below 80,000 units. And it wants to sell the all but redundant Browns Lane plant in Coventry. That's not going to turn Jaguar into a force in a niche premium car market. The dream of producing 200,000 cars a year was long ago abandoned and it will be several years before Jaguar will be producing 100,000 cars. With so many other problems to sort out across Ford's global empire, the parent shouldn't waste more money and management time on Jaguar. After 16 years of Ford ownership and large-scale investment, Jaguar has yet to live up to its still-strong brand. With a lowly market share in a fast growing segment, Jaguar is starting to look like a spent force despite its pretty fine cars. Comparing output with competitors like BMW shows the depth of the Ford Jaguar problem. Just three years since it passed the one million unit mark, BMW will this year produce over 1.3 million cars. Even Mercedes Benz, struggling with quality and a host of other problems, will sell 1.2 million units in 2005. To make things worse, Jaguar has other fast-growing European based competitors to worry about, such as a fast growing Audi, which plans to be selling one million cars by 2007. Even leaving aside fast-growing Japanese premium competition like Toyota Nexus, the chances of Jaguar gaining ground look slim. Biting the bullet on Jaguar must be inevitable unless the carmaker's fortunes can be reversed over the next two years. Having paid far too much in 1989, given Jaguar its head, and poured in substantial plant and model investment aimed at producing 200,000 units by today, all Ford has to show investors is too many years of losses. Ford shareholders deserve better than that. Further cutting production without slashing jobs will be seen as a signal that Ford believes Jaguar's poor performance has more to do with weak market demand than with the absence of models customers want to buy. If Ford's other premium brands, such as Land Rover and Volvo, can make a profit in difficult markets, Jaguar really has no excuse. But to succeed, it needs a bottom-up design review that abandons its history and looks radically different from anything the company has ever produced. Jaguar's models don't look much different than they did more than a decade ago. Volvo, Land Rover and even the now profitable Aston Martin give Ford more than enough European premium car product to handle. (Howard Wheeldon was a senior equities analyst for 20 years, and has been a columnist at Dow Jones for the past three years. He can be reached at +44 207-842-9251 or by e-mail: howard.wheeldon@dowjones.com) Return to Top

I thought I'd drop by to keep you company for a while......... Charlie